ORH_wxman

2000-2001 incoming

First time for everything....ORH hadn't seen even 3 consecutive winters without a 10"+ storm on record from 1892-1988....then with perfect precision after I move back to ORH from Texas as a little kid, we get not only 3 in a row, but FOUR in a row without a 10"+ storm. Maybe you get that in Methuen after moving there like I did with ORH.

Too bad we couldn't lock in the GGEM....like 2 feet of snow next weekend from 2 systems. What a clown model that is.

No sustained warmth at all on guidance...White Snake pattern. Hope for one more big dog to track mid-month.

That 3/4/19 storm had some of the heaviest rates I've had in the last 5+ years. I had 4-5 inches per hour for a while. Managed 17" of which most fell in about 4 hours.

18z GFS way south now....lol.

Yeah I don't really like that storm very much for winter wx...could change, but it seems too early in the pattern shift for a good snow event. Our window of potential is more between 3/12-3/20 IMHO....prob centered in the 3/13-3/17 time range.

GFS might be interesting for 3/10

Yeah I remember the torch March talk a couple weeks back. This early March cold period is actually verifying pretty nicely, but we couldn't get anything to amplify into the cold.... We'll see if the reload mid-month bears fruit. Almost reminds me a little of how Mar 2007 unfolded. We started the month brutally cold (colder than this outbreak....it was breaking records). Then we had a big relaxation between the 10th and 15th or so. I even remember being near 70F a couple days before the big 3/16-17/07 storm. Then we went cold again for the storm and up until the final week when we torched again. We snuck in another small event on 3/24 before it torched.

Winter hill this morning

Monday is toast for us....enjoy the rain. NNE could cash in on that. After Monday we could get something....some guidance trying for 3/12 but I feel like more toward 3/14-3/15 period is a better setup.

Seems like the pike was pretty close to the dividing line. 925 was pretty dicey south of that. AWT.

Almost an inch on winter hill.

That anniversary date (3/13) looks pretty favorable right now. Another pretty good storm happened on that date too 25 years before that. Hopefully we get one more biggie to track.

3/12-3/20 is definitely the time frame for something decent. I’d punt 3/7-8 south of NNE. That one looks putrid.

925 is really marginal south of the pike. Could go either way.

EPS has a western ridge spike around 3/14-3/15....if we've got one more big dog left this season, that's probably the most likely period to get it....tons of cold around too when that happens. We'll see how this looks in another few days.

Today's guidance is breaking it down a little faster than yesterday too.....so I think we have about a 7-8 day window between 3/12-3/20 IMHO. Any western ridging during that period will have to be watched since there will be plenty of cold loading already. Things could obviously change again, but as of now, that looks like the prime period if we have one more big dog threat in us....STJ down south is still ejecting shortwaves too from time to time....so if we can line up all the ducks, then there's a chance.

The block is over the Bering strait prior to 3/10...it rolls into a more favorable position after that further east. It might not be technically as strong as it is on 3/9 or 3/10 (though we won't know for sure until we are closer), but it's effectively more potent there in terms of impacting our sensible wx.

Yeah way up north might be able to salvage 3/7.....we'll see.

Aside from maybe a brief burst of moderate to heavy snow tonight, close the shades until after 3/10....the pattern still does look quite good after that point though. I'd be surprised if we don't have another legit threat. May not pan out, but hard to see not having a threat or two.

Been getting weenie flakes here for the past 10-15 min.

Seems like the blocking goes nuclear after the 9th or 10th though. I think we'll have chances mid-month...but I agree. If we could have kept this weekend south and added to the snow pack, it would have added to the wintry appeal...but when you are dealing with a White Snake winter, you take what you can get. Deal with the meltouts.